{"id":81,"date":"2009-10-01T02:10:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-01T10:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=81"},"modified":"2009-10-01T02:10:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-01T10:10:00","slug":"open-thread-%e2%80%93-1012009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2009\/10\/01\/open-thread-%e2%80%93-1012009\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread \u2013 10\/1\/2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to a new month.&#160; I\u2019ll be scarce again today, because I have an appointment this morning and a few chores to catch up.&#160; Please bear with me.&#160; I plan to change the poll today.&#160; I have an idea, but if there\u2019s something you\u2019d like, please comment.&#160; I won\u2019t be sure for a few days, my lawyer called and told me that&#160; Social Security has my case listed as closed.&#160; He says that in that past that has meant they have reversed, knowing they would lose at the hearing.&#160; In short, I think I just won my SSDI appeal, although it may be some time before I get confirmation.<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s Jig Zone Puzzle took me 6:48.&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2009-10-01-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">Click Here<\/a>.&#160; How did you do?<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a bit of humor.<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<div style=\"display: inline\"><a title=\"Cartoon by Nate Beeler\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cagle.com\/politicalcartoons\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cartoon by Nate Beeler\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cagle.com\/working\/090929\/beeler.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>     <br \/><a title=\"See Cartoons by Cartoon by Nate Beeler\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cagle.com\/politicalcartoons\/pccartoons\/archives\/beeler.asp\" target=\"_blank\">See Cartoons by Cartoon by Nate Beeler<\/a> &#8211; <a title=\"Politicalcartoons.com Cartoon\" href=\"http:\/\/politicalcartoons.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Courtesy of Politicalcartoons.com<\/a> &#8211; <a title=\"Cagle.com\" href=\"http:\/\/cagle.com\/caglecards\/main.asp?image=http:\/\/www.cagle.com\/working\/090929\/beeler.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">Email this Cartoon<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Have a great day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to a new month.&#160; I\u2019ll be scarce again today, because I have an appointment this morning and a few chores to catch up.&#160; Please bear with me.&#160; I plan to change the poll today.&#160; I have an idea, but if there\u2019s something you\u2019d like, please comment.&#160; I won\u2019t be sure for a few days, <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2009\/10\/01\/open-thread-%e2%80%93-1012009\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-35-id","category-3-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}